Charlie grabbed a water bottle from her backpack and offered it to Allux. She was about to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by the sound of something crashing into the ground in the distance. As the smoke and dust cleared, something climbed out of the crater. Something that most certainly did not belong in this world or any other.

"It seems the enemy has found us." Enma spoke.

The thing, whatever it was, was this twisted abomination of both mechanical and natural form. Its shape constantly warped and twisted, parts randomly blinking rapidly in and out of existence with the accompanying sound of loud static. The abomination's movements were comprised of violent twitching stuttering from one area to the next. Everything about it was just wrong.

It paused for a brief moment before firing some sort of beam from one of its appendages, for lack of a better word. The moment the beam struck a small patch of land, it completely vanished. No smoke, no ash, no bodies. Nothing. As though it had never been in the first place.

Then, it turned its attention to the group.